There's a low green valley on the old Kentucky shore
There I've whiled many happy hours
A sitting and a singing by the little cottage door.
Where lived my darling?
Oh, my poor, deadly grave, they have taken you away.
And I'll never see my darling anymore.
I'm sitting by the river and I'm weeping all the day.
For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore.
When the moon had climbed the mountain and the stars were shining
Then I'd take my darling Nellie Gray
And we'd float down the river in my little red coat.
When I'd banjo sweetly I would play
Oh, my poor little grave, they have taken you away.
And I'll never see my darling anymore
I'm sitting by the river and I'm weeping all the day.
For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore.
One night I went to see her, but she's gone, the neighbors.
see the white man has bound her with
They have taken her to Georgia for to wear her like a wig.
As she toils in the cotton and the cane.
Oh, my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away.
And I'll never see my darling anymore.
I'm sitting by the river and I'm weeping all the day.
For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore.
My canoe is underwater and my banjo is at sea.
I'm tired of living anymore
I shall look downward and my song shall be unsung.
While I stay on the old Kentucky shore
Oh, my poor Nelly Gray, they have taken you away.
And I'll never see my darling anymore.
I'm sitting by the river and I'm weeping all the day
For you've gone from the old Kentucky shore.
My eyes are getting blinded and I cannot see.
See my way.
There's somebody knocking.
I hear the angels calling and I see my neck.
grey farewell to the old Kentucky shore
Oh, my darling Nellie Gray Up in heaven there they say
That they'll never take you from me anymore.
I know coming, coming, coming as the angels clear the way.
Farewell to the old Kentucky shore.
